Which means, ‘It’s my own wish that you’d be with me as me wife on a Sunday afternoon’.

Translation

It’s down in Sligo that I first became acquainted with women
And back in Galway that I drank my fill with them
And I swear that if they don’t leave me alone from here on out
I’ll play them a trick that will have them running!

If you’re with me, be with me by day and by night
If you’re with me, be with me in the presence of all in the house
If you’re with me, and if you’re with me in every inch of your heart
It’s my regret that you’re not with me on Sunday as my wife.

I played a trick in O’Donnell’s house last night
And a second one in a house close by
But the third trick, shameful for any man to relate,
The old woman put me out with the twisting of a hay-rope.

I’d plant and plough and sow the seed deep in the ground
And I’d drive the cattle on the uplands with the tallest grass
I’d shoe the finest, swiftest stallion that ever trod grass
And there’s women who’d elope with a man who didn’t do any of that.

My head is gray, and it’s not age that’s made it so
But my nearest and dearest mentioning me with a woman of no dowry
I’ve been after you for a year, without getting you
Until I’m like a deer on the mountain with the baying of hounds after it.

If you’re with me, be with me in the presence of all in the house
If you’re with me, be with me by day and by night
If you’re with me, and if you’re with me in every inch of your heart
It’s my regret that you’re not with me on Sunday as my wife.